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An Effect of Safety Leadership Coaching Program on Safety Behaviors of Construction Workers: Based on Behavior Based Safety

안전 리더십 코칭 프로그램이 건설 현장 근로자들의 안전 행동에 미치는 효과 : 행동기반 안전관리(Behavior Based Safety: BBS)를 중심으로

  • Lee, Jidong (Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Oah, Shezeen (Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University) ;
  • Moon, Kwangsu (Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University)
  • Received : 2018.11.27
  • Accepted : 2018.12.20
  • Published : 2018.12.31
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Abstract

This study examined the effect of safety leadership coaching program on managers' safety management and workers' safety behaviors in construction site. Three or four managers and about one hundred workers at each site participated in this study. Safety leadership coaching program consisted of safety leadership education, goal setting, self-monitoring and feedback on workers' safety behavior, reward for three safety management behaviors; (1) safety observations of workers safety behavior and (2) providing positive feedback on safe behavior (3) providing corrective feedback on risk behavior and daily safety education for workers. Dependent variables were the percentage of safe behaviors of workers and frequency of managers' safety management behaviors. A nonconcurrent AB multiple baseline design across settings was adopted. After baseline(A), safety leadership coaching program (B) was introduced to each site. The results showed that safety leadership coaching program was effective to increase managers' and workers' safety behaviors. These results suggest that safety leadership coaching program developed in this study would be an alternative treatment technique to improve construction safety management. In addition, the implications, limitations of this study, and future studies are discussed.

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Fig. 1. Example of critical behavior cecklist used in this study.

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Fig. 2. Percentage of workers’ safety behavior across experimental conditions.

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Fig. 3. The result of confidence interval analysis for workers’ safety behaviors at A site.

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Fig. 4. The result of confidence interval analysis for workers’ safety behaviors at B site

Table 1. Average number of safety management behaviors of managers at each construction site

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